Example sentences of "he had [be] work [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | King Jigme Singye Wangchuck speaking in New Delhi on his arrival in India on Sept. 9 for a four-day official visit , said that he did not consider a monarchy to be the best system of government and that he had been working towards the greater democratization of his country . |
| 2 | After all , he had been working on the theory for twenty years , and did not want to see himself scooped by an outsider . |
| 3 | Local people said he had been working on the site for two years and was very popular with them . |
| 4 | He had been working with the police all along ! |
| 5 | He had been working at the Council depot as an attendant when Joe offered him the job , and he had been very pleased to make the change . |
| 6 | The case of Kenneth Littlejohn had been prominent in the news during the year and they had the impression that he had been working for the Home Office . |
| 7 | He had been working for the Cyrenians at an annex to the Simon House Hostel for the Homeless in Rectory Road Oxford . |
| 8 | There were gulls flying and calling , but I had not disturbed the main colony , and I thought that I would have heard if he had been working below the cliffs at the north-west point . |
| 9 | He had been working since the 1820s on his theory that ‘ grand geometrical lines ’ had been laid out in ancient times across the country and that these were indicated by old boundaries and markers . |